225 million euros for start-ups of the Max Planck Society

2022 brought record investment sums for research-based start-ups managed by Max Planck Innovation

21-Mar-2023 - A successful business year for Max Planck Innovation includes increasing investment sums for the start-ups managed. Especially life sciences start-ups with a high degree of maturity provided a record sum of 225 million euros. Companies in the Max Planck Innovation investment portfolio raised over ...

Max Planck spin-off develops more efficient batteries

Batene starts with ten million euros in seed financing

16-Nov-2022 - An invention by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research could make batteries much more energy dense, efficient and safer. The research team has found a way to produce very fine metal fleeces, the batene fleece, that can serve as current collectors in batteries and make them ...

Software for the discovery of new crystal structures

16-May-2011 - A new software called QED (Quantitative Electron Diffraction), which has been licensed by Max Planck Innovation, has now been released by HREM Research Inc., a Japan based company, which is developing products and services in the field of High-Resolution Electron Microscopy. QED allows ...

Max Planck Innovation grants rights for developing new nanoscopic method to Leica Microsystems

15-Oct-2009 - Max Planck Innovation, the technology transfer organization of the Max Planck Society, grants Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, an exclusive license for implementing the latest generation of optical microscopes with a resolution far below the diffraction limit (nanoscopes). This innovative optical ...

Max Planck Innovation and FuMA-Tech sign exclusive licencing agreement for novel fuel cell technology

New membrane material solves crucial problem for methanol-based fuel cells

06-Nov-2007 - Max Planck Innovation GmbH has signed an exclusive license agreement with BWT subsidiary FuMA-Tech GmbH for a patent covering a novel material for fuel cell membranes, its synthesis and use. The novel material, sulfonated poly(arylene) bears the potential to overcome some of the limitations of ...

Max Planck Innovation Concludes Licensing Agreement for Technology Providing Unlimited Resolution in Microscopy

Overcoming Abbe's law in light microscopy

31-May-2007 - Max Planck Innovation GmbH, the technology transfer agency of the Max Planck Society, has signed a co-exclusive license agreement with Leica Microsystems and Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH for the RESOLFT (reversible saturable optical fluorescent transitions) technology, a method providing ...

SuppreMol launched as a new company

30-Nov-2005 - Z-Cube, the corporate venture capital arm of the Zambon Group took another important step forwards in fostering pharmaceutical innovation, signing a contract to provide finance and expert support to SuppreMol GmbH. This marked the project's official launch as a new company after several years of ...